Lesson #5

Never get involved in other people's problems.
It's just easier that way.
I mean this one with all sincerity, just stay away from other people's lives and their issues, stick to your own. It doesn't matter if you miss out on the latest gossip or are out of the loop, some things should just be left alone.
For instance, two of your best friends, lets call them Alice and Charlie, have been dating for a good three years. And they're perfect together. And they're perfect individuals. And everything is wonderful.
And then some guy, who's sorta your friend but mostly just a tag along, let's call him Adam, tells you that he's been cheating with her. For the past six months.
While it may be a well-known fact that Alice is a total flirt, you never thought she'd hurt Charlie like that. You never thought she'd go that far. You never thought she'd be that heartless.
What's worse is that before they started dating, you were practically in love with Charlie. Who is the most genuine and honest and incredibly pure person you will ever meet. You even tell Alice, who is undeniably your best friend, that you like Charlie. But she goes out with him regardless, and they fall in love all by themselves. And you know what, it doesn't even matter because they're both awesome friends and you're actually really happy for them, and you move on from Charlie and everything's fine for three years.
Then Adam drops this fucking huge bombshell, and nukes your entire perspective to shreds. Thanks Adam, you fucking wankshaft prick. Thanks a whole fucking lot.
So yeah, Adam and Alice have been fooling around behind Charlie's back for half the fucking year, until Alice decides that she made a mistake and doesn't want to jeapordise her relationship with Charlie (quite rightly so, might I point out) and tells Adam its over. Well done, girl!
But Adam, the basarding little knob, can't deal with that. He has to go and tell Charlie about their little arrangement. You spineless weed. Leaving poor Chaz broken. But he stays with Alice anyway, because he's a hopelessly romantic fool. Poor Charlie.
In the meantime, Adam off-loads his secret onto you. Neutral you. Switzerland you. Although, in the fight against two amazing, beautiful specimens of humanity versus an egotistical, obnoxious, vile little turd is it any wonder Switzerland finally caved? Didn't think so.
And now, Adam is threatening suicide if he doesn't get an apology from Alice for what she did to him. No, you're not missing a trick: What. She. Did. To. Him.
When he shouldn't have gone through with it in the first place. He's even friends with Charlie! And he can't handle the fact that he screwed up so badly, so he's blaming everyone else. Like a child. Like a vindictive, malicious, evil child. Like the love child of Tiger Woods and Satan.
So yeah, Adam tells you he's going to kill himself. Which you don't buy for a second; I mean firstly if you are gonna kill yourself, you wouldn't tell anyone, you'd just do it, and secondly he adores his family to the end of the world and back, he'd never do that to them. But the way he speaks about it, it's really scary, and you don't know what to do, what to say, how to react. On the one hand you're a minute away from ripping his head off and just bad-mouthing him to hell. On the other hand, you kinda feel sorry for him, in all fairness Alice has done a pretty shitty thing and she doesn't seem to be feeling the repurcussions of that.
And now you're in the middle of this shitfest, while you have a dozen othr problems that need fixing. And you feel 100% helpless. And so you turn to Blogger to find comfort and solace. And amazingly, you kinda do.
But seriously guys, try to avoid other people's issues, they belong to them for a reason, don't feel that you have to go meddling. And besides, your problems are just as bad as theirs, sort yourself out before venturing onto other people's lives. It's just easier that way.